Units and/or Action Trajectories?
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Cecilia E. Ford
Abstract
Responding to Sacks et al.’s 1974 call for linguists to join in the study of resources for turn construction, the authors of this chapter long ago took on turn formulation as an issue which linguists must account for. In this chapter, we return to this aspect of CA’s charge to linguists, noting that CA continues to borrow the meta-language of linguistic unit types which are based in a tradition that does not address the practices of humans in real-time and contingent social action. We experiment in grounding accounts of turn construction in action rather than linguistic-category types, offering two detailed analyses of utterances that emerge in ordinary interaction, avoiding dependence on linguistic categories. In line with longstanding trends in CA, we experiment in moving further toward a descriptive meta-language for turn construction based in the particulars of moments of naturally occurring interaction, with attention to vocal and embodied conduct of the multiple copresent participants.
Abstract
Responding to Sacks et al.’s 1974 call for linguists to join in the study of resources for turn construction, the authors of this chapter long ago took on turn formulation as an issue which linguists must account for. In this chapter, we return to this aspect of CA’s charge to linguists, noting that CA continues to borrow the meta-language of linguistic unit types which are based in a tradition that does not address the practices of humans in real-time and contingent social action. We experiment in grounding accounts of turn construction in action rather than linguistic-category types, offering two detailed analyses of utterances that emerge in ordinary interaction, avoiding dependence on linguistic categories. In line with longstanding trends in CA, we experiment in moving further toward a descriptive meta-language for turn construction based in the particulars of moments of naturally occurring interaction, with attention to vocal and embodied conduct of the multiple copresent participants.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- The question of units for language, action and interaction 1
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Part I. Units of language revisited
- Units and/or Action Trajectories? 13
- The dynamics of incrementation in utterance-building 57
- From “intonation units” to cesuring – an alternative approach to the prosodic-phonetic structuring of talk-in-interaction 91
- Perception of prosodic boundaries by untrained listeners 125
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Part II. Units of action and interaction
- At the intersection of turn and sequence organization 169
- When ‘yes’ is not enough – as an answer to a yes/no question 207
- Emerging units and emergent forms of participation within a unit in Japanese interaction 243
- Phonetic resources in the construction of social actions 277
- Building an instructional project 313
- Language and the body in the construction of units in Mandarin face-to-face interaction 343
- Index 377
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- The question of units for language, action and interaction 1
-
Part I. Units of language revisited
- Units and/or Action Trajectories? 13
- The dynamics of incrementation in utterance-building 57
- From “intonation units” to cesuring – an alternative approach to the prosodic-phonetic structuring of talk-in-interaction 91
- Perception of prosodic boundaries by untrained listeners 125
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Part II. Units of action and interaction
- At the intersection of turn and sequence organization 169
- When ‘yes’ is not enough – as an answer to a yes/no question 207
- Emerging units and emergent forms of participation within a unit in Japanese interaction 243
- Phonetic resources in the construction of social actions 277
- Building an instructional project 313
- Language and the body in the construction of units in Mandarin face-to-face interaction 343
- Index 377
